Week 9, May 10: African American Commemoration

Reading 1: Blight, Chapter 9, “Black Memory and the Progress of the Race”

For consideration: How and why did the competing strains of black memory emerge across the fifty years after emancipation?

Reading 2: Kathleen Clark, “Making History: African American Commemorative Celebrations in Augusta, Georgia, 1865-1913,” in Monuments to the Lost Cause: Women, Art, and the Landscapes of Southern Memory (2003)

How are the commemorations of African Americans in Augusta, Georgia between 1865 and 1913 reflective of African American memory in the fifty years after emancipation?